on September 21, 22 and 24 to remove more of the dam. Their actions against the dam as a public nuisance to navigation were upheld by the courts, in Renwick v. Morris, William Renwick being the owner of the dam at the time. The court ruled that New York State should not have authorized the bridge to be built, because navigable waterways are the jurisdiction of the Federal government. On March 19, 1858, Senator Smith Ely Jr. introduced legislation to the New York State Senate mandating the removal of obstructions, including Macomb's Dam, from the Harlem River. Its passage under Chapter 291 on April 16, 1858, directed the replacement the dam with a turntable swing bridge, to be administered by a four-person commission split between members of both Westchester and New York counties. Each county was required to pay $15,000 of the construction cost By 1861 the bridge and dam had been totally removed, and the bridge was replaced with the toll-free Central Bridge. In 1890, this was replaced by the current Macombs Dam Bridge, now the third-oldest major bridge in New York City, after the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Bridge. The Macombs Dam is memorialized in the name of Macombs Dam Park, which was rebuilt as part of the construction of the new Yankee Stadium in 2010. References Notes Bridges completed in 1816 Dams completed in 1814 Buildings and structures demolished in 1839 Dams in New York (state) Demolished bridges in the United States Former toll bridges in New York (state) 1814 establishments in New York (state) Bridges in the Bronx Bridges in Manhattan Concourse, Bronx Demolished buildings and structures in the Bronx Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan